> The short answer is: because Git was designed to track content. The > long answer is more complicated. Here's one of the more useful past > discussions: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91783 > > I'm sure you can find others by searching the git list for "metadata". I read that thread you showed above. Sounds like a big squirmy can-o-worms, and I see that thread died on the vine because of it. :) All I want to do in my case is just chmod 700 a bunch of scripts after they are checked out or updated. I'll need to re-read the git-hooks man page more closely. Thanks for your help! bg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
